I'm working on the eleventh draft of a middle grade mystery because you just can't write something over too many times.
I'm paying attention to scenes this time around, inspired by Rachel Aaron's 2k to 10k: Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love. I never gave any thought to scenes in the past. I just wrote. Was writing like that a good thing? A bad thing? Something you can only do for a while?
Let's put that aside for a few minutes, or months, or years.
Anyway, what I've been seeing is that in some chapters I have material that doesn't appear to be part of a scene at all. It's what I'm thinking of as narrative connector. And I'm finding that I'm not that crazy about a lot of it. Look at this stuff, I keep thinking. It's just hanging here.
I'm cutting some of it down and moving some into existing scenes. It's kind of fascinating.
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